Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sharply criticized Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate at large over the Kentucky Republican’s prolonged absence from Congress due to health issues.
Beshear, a Democrat, said on Friday that he still had little information about the condition of McConnell, who was hospitalized in mid-June and released from a rehabilitation center earlier this month.
“I’ve received absolutely nothing, and that’s the same that the people of Kentucky have received,” Beshear told MS Now. “This is why the Senate feels broken. These guys don’t think that they have a boss when the people of Kentucky are their boss. They don’t feel like they are accountable whatsoever.”
Beshear called on McConnell to make a video or call into a news show to update the public about his health.
If only there was SOMETHING he Could do! OH WELL!
He’s tried nothing and is all out of ideas.
I totally understand the frustration, but my understanding is that there is really nothing he can legally do about it. What exactly do you think he should be doing that he isn’t? If there is something that he’s legitimately not doing I’d like to know about it.
McConnell is a US senator. Beshear is the governor of the state of Kentucky.
Beshear has about the same legal authority to do something about it that you do.
So… What’s your excuse?
He could have called for a special election before August 3rd and forced the issue. That’s a hell of a lot more than I could do.
You also left out: McConnell is a US Senator for the state of Kentucky. It’s not like he immediately became untouchable by his state he represents the moment he got elected.
The democrats (and the governor) are just too spineless to force the issue.